Ms Maria Graham:

The Deputy raised the study done a number of years ago around stand-alone estates. At quarter 4 in 2019 Irish Water assessed that there are probably 566 estates, but this number keeps evolving as they are taken in charge. They vary among estates from some that are just wastewater to those that have both wastewater and drinking water, and then some are stand-alone. With the stand-alone estates, they were developed at a time the developer would have put in the works and they were not connected to the public network. There is a process in place with an expert panel and a multi-annual programme under the national development plan to bring solutions for these estates.